DC Circuits
CAPACITANCE
TABLE 1
Types of Capacitors
Dielectric
Construction
Capacitance Range
Air
Meshed plates
10 - 400 pF
Mica
Stacked Sheets
10 - 5000 pF
Paper
Rolled foil
0.001 - 1 µF
Ceramic
Tubular
0.5 - 1600 pF
Disk
Tubular
0.002 - 0.1 µF
Electrolytic
Aluminum
5 - 1000 µF
Tantalum
Aluminum
0.01 - 300 µF
Capacitors in Series and Parallel
Capacitors in series are combined like resistors in parallel. The total capacitance, CT, of
capacitors connected in series (Figure 13), is shown in Equation (3-9).
Figure 13 Capacitors Connected in Series
(3-9)
1
CT
1
C1
1
C2
1
C3
. . .
1
CN
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